Reid was later to maintain that the creation of instituted signs presupposes an agreement among a community of speakers, which in turn presupposes language, and this led him to declare that there must be some language that is innately understood rather than established by convention.
The demand for globalised speech has led to the creation of specialised institutes for accent neutralisation.
For his home state, he pushed for appropriations for the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, and he backed bigger budgets for the National Institutes of Health and the creation of the institutes' Office for Rare Diseases Research.
When the Templeton Foundation announced the Dalai Lama's prize last year, it made much of the Tibetan leader's embrace of science – in particular, the creation of learning institutes where fellow monks and young Tibetans could learn importance sciences to complement their traditional spiritual educations.
This enthusiasm, he notes, has translated into the creation of new institutes such as CRG and the Spanish National Cancer Center in Madrid, both of which aspire to become new European centres of excellence.
It was a question posed by the filmmaker George Lucas that led to the creation of the institute in 1997.
A wealthy Chicago couple recently donated $42 million to the University of Chicago Medical Center for the creation of an institute to improve the doctor-patient relationship.
Set up in 2008, and bringing together leading local accountants, executives, academics and officials, the Committee to Develop the Accountancy Sector also proposed the creation of an institute to train corporate financial officers.
"Then," he added with a smile, "in the 1990's, when I proposed the creation of an institute to develop plays about social issues, some of the same people said I was 'too political.' " The idea for "The Street Children's Crusade" was conceived by the Spanish dramatist Jose Sanchis Sinisterra, who coordinated the writing and editing of the play.
George, who is Catholic and has overseen the creation of an institute at Princeton that has been described as a conservative beachhead in academia, is already recognized as a major force behind efforts to move the cultural and legislative needle rightward.
Furthermore, accounts from various countries or provinces describe the importance being attached to the creation of an institute for health research.
